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There is a setting in either itunes or the ipod that groups the compilation albums together so they don't clutter the artist list. If you set the compilation flag to yes ("1" in mp3tag), and set the the ARTISTSORT tag to %album%, those albums won't clutter up the Artist list.instead, they'll appear alphabetically by album title under Compilations.hmmm, in my ipod 160gb, I make sure compilations flag is set to 1, but I don't have to do anything with artistsort (which I don't use).
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I don't it's had a firmware update in about three years.Īs far as separating out soundtracks and compilations on the iPod Classic, this can be accomplished with careful (and consistent) combinations of the compilation flag and the Sort Artist tags.
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I also format one of our libraries for an iPod Classic.isn't it annoying as all get out that they don't update the software and fix some of these weird quirks? It's perplexing that they still sell the product yet have no interest in supporting it. If you set the compilation flag to yes ("1" in mp3tag), and set the the ARTISTSORT tag to %album%, those albums won't clutter up the Artist list.instead, they'll appear alphabetically by album title under Compilations. This way, tags can be fixed/changed on-baord, so to speak, rather than having to go back to the library, change tags, re-load or update, etc.Īs far as separating out soundtracks and compilations on the iPod Classic, this can be accomplished with careful (and consistent) combinations of the compilation flag and the Sort Artist tags. In any event, I've found the best approach to dealing with that player's quirks is to load it manually. I don't it's had a firmware update in about three years.
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No need for manual entry or re-ripping.Įxcellent point, thanks! However, on-the-go I listen on an 160gb iPod classic, which indeed does not allow listing by Album Artist.I also format one of our libraries for an iPod Classic.isn't it annoying as all get out that they don't update the software and fix some of these weird quirks? It's perplexing that they still sell the product yet have no interest in supporting it. These kinds of programs can access the online databases like dBp does. If the audio data is sound, you can easily add the missing tags with another program like mp3tag or MusicBrainz Picard. One more point: No need to re-rip just to add tags. This makes them even more "separate" and especially easy to get to, but the parentheses are not necessary.) So when scrolling through the artist view on my players, those albums are all neatly contained within their respective "categories." (My purpose in adding the parentheses is to force them to the top of the alphabetized artist list.
In my case, I use the ALBUM ARTIST tag (Soundtracks) on all my soundtracks, and(COMPILATIONS) on all my compilations. This way, you don't lose any of the actual artist data, nor do you have to preserve it by moving it to some other tag. This is a powerful tool for doing things like you're talking about- keeping soundtracks, compilations, or whatever separated out in the Artist view on the player. Most players (there are a few exceptions, like classic iPods) can use ALBUM ARTIST to organize their library index, rather than ARTIST. (FYI I know that the track Artist info is lost on the soundtracks etc I've ripped already, but I can easily re-rip once this is solved.)Yes, mp3tag does make it easy, and is the better solution for post-rip tag editing.īut I'd like to re-iterate Spoon's ing ALBUM ARTIST is a better way to meet your objective. However, I'd prefer to not lose the information about who the artist is - can I copy that info to either the Composer filed or a Comment field, for the whole album, before I change all of the artist names? I've tried typing "" in the Composer field in ID -Tag, but that just puts "" there.įor example, for The Crow soundtrack, I'd like the Composer of track 1 to be "The Cure", not "Perry Bamonte Simon Gallup Robert Smith Porl Thompson Boris Williams", and track 4 be "Nine Inch Nails" not "Ian Curtis Peter Hook Stephen Morris Bernard Sumner".
I like to see my soundtracks and other compilations in one place when looking at Artists on my player, so I usually change the Artist tag on the whole album to the title of the album.
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